Search for Air France Flight 447

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Three REMUS AUVs like this one (two owned by the Waitt Institute for Discovery and one from Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences IFM-GEOMAR of Germany) participitated in the search for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. The vehicles can be equipped with a wide range of sensors, including a sidescan sonar system and down-looking cameras, and can explore depths of up to 6000 meters, or 3.7 miles, below the ocean surface. (Brennan Phillips, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)